Issue: #26
Published: January 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interiors Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines.
On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Volume 39, Number 1. Class B periodical. p. 81. Copyright registration number B 619544.
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Comic Story (15 pages) |
Body, Mind and Soul |
Synopsis: |
Chief Branner discovers that Plastic Man is actually a wanted felon, and Plastic Man is ready to submit and do his time. However, the Chief finds him too valuable of asset to the force and gives him an assignment to prove himself by bringing in three wanted crooks, each of whom was a unique challenge: one of brawn, one of brains and one of soul (a werewolf, no less). Branner is impressed and absolves O'Brian of his past. |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] Woozy Winks Chief Branner Randy Ronan (introduction) Vida (introduction) Pike Ronan (villain, Introduction, A Werewolf, Death) Slugger Crott (villain, Introduction) Hoppy (villain, Introduction) Brains (villain, Introduction) Butch (villain, Introduction) |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Synopsis: |
Dewey gets a tattoo of his girlfriend's face, but a last-minute inoculation mars the perfection of her image. |
Genre: |
Humor Military |
Characters: |
Dewey Drip Fanny Belle |
Comic Story (10 pages) |
The Ghostmaster |
Synopsis: |
A vaudeville performer billed as the Ghostmaster, a great make-up artist, a master of the quick change, and able to bring the dead to life, is bitter when vaudeville died. He planned and plotted until he found Mr. Trueman, a bank president so trusted, that Fearless' impersonation wouldn't be questioned until he emptied the vaults and faked a suicide. He gives the game away when he adopts Richards' identity as a disguise and meets up with Manhunter, who captures Mr. Fearless and recognizes him as the Ghostmaster, a performer that inspired him as a youth. |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
Manhunter [Dan Richards] Thor The Ghostmaster [Mr. Fearless] (villain, Death) |
Comics-form Advertising (1 page) |
Captain Tootsie and The Secret Weapon |
Synopsis: |
Nazi spies try to kidnap Rollo to discover his secret weapon, but they are foiled by Captain Tootsie. |
Characters: |
Captain Tootsie Rollo Hans |
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